Kevin's Watch

Being a guitar player, I notice this a lot. Some guys got it, some guys don't. Sometimes it's only there in certain songs. I guess bass players've got it too, but I don't listen for that.

Joe Walsh has it all the time.

Dave Gilmour-Another Brick in the Wall Part II...That smoky sound of his solo over Rick Wright's Hammond is money. It's so money it makes me want to light up every time I hear it.

Rik Emmett-Spellbound...That's the definative '80s guitar sound in that song.

Tony Iommi-The only man who could make every note drip with gloom and evil.

Eddie Van Halen-I'm really not a big fan of his, but I gotta give props to his "brown" sound. Listen to Summer Nights or Cabo Wabo, and the tone is just this bizarre combination of muddy and bright.

Jimmy Page-Master of the crunch.

Ritchie Blackmore-Outro solo on Stone Cold. 'Nuff Said.

Who'm I missing?

Eric Johnson - Manhattan and Cliffs of Dover. Simply sublime.

Ooohhh yeah. Cliffs of Dover is excellent.

Add Andy Summers...A Piece of Time.

any Boston tune? at least a very distinct sound, I don't know how else you might classify it....

Anything by Clapton, but especially River of Tears.

Boston sucks.

David Gilmour also has it in the solo at the end of Fat Old Sun. too bad it fades out.

Boston sucks.

What he said.

say what ya want, ain't no guitar sound like it.....and Smokin' is....well, it's just Smokin' ain't it?

if you like mindless pap, yes it smokes. but it might as well be binary code for all the heart and soul that it has. there is no emotion. Gilmour plays with soul.

Nugent's Stranglehold had alot of personality to it....

and you certainly can't beat The Edge for a one note solo....

Yeah, nods to the Nuge for Stranglehold.

"tone" ? .... <shrug> I'm a drummer ... don't know what that is...

Alex Lifeson of Rush always has had great tone; Jacob's Ladder still gives me chills.

Brian May had sweet, sweet tone.

George Harrison had tons of tone.

Stevie Ray Vaughan....OMG did he have tone.

Steve Perry of Aerosmith was tone city.

Duane Allman and Dave Peverett (Foghat) had incredible slide tone.

Elliot Easton had a great sound that really stood out against the new wave backdrop of the Cars.

Rick Neilson of Cheap Trick had a huge sound.

As a guitar player tone is sometimes an elusive thing. dAN will attest that I've managed to keep basicly the same tone no matter what guitar I play and through whatever amp. I can't tell you why that is except it comes directly from what I expect to hear when I play. Other guitarists must approach things the same way because there is a lot of consitency to the Van Halen's and Vaughn's and Allman's etc.

BTW dAN though Lonesome Dave Peverett played wonderful guitar it was mostly Rod Price you hear playing slide. Or Eric Cartwright on the later Foghat recordings.

d'oh!

dANdeLION wrote:d'oh!

Exactly.

Bass players have tone as well though it can sometimes be hard to pick out of a recording.
The tone I shoot for with my bass is (as I've said over and over throughout the years) like a sledge hammer striking an anvil.
Listen. You can hear it now if you try........

See, I've got multiple guitars for different tones. If I want a nice, fat tone, I use my Les Paul. If I'm looking for the "Clapton" or "Gilmour" sound, or for more of a trebl-y 80s metal sound, I use a Charvel Model 4.

Cail wrote:See, I've got multiple guitars for different tones. If I want a nice, fat tone, I use my Les Paul. If I'm looking for the "Clapton" or "Gilmour" sound, or for more of a trebl-y 80s metal sound, I use a Charvel Model 4.

My weapon of choice is a double fat telecaster. Pretty much covers it all with double humbuckers.

The Charvel's got an EMG humbucker at the bridge, with traditional Strat-style EMG single-coils in the top two positions. Super-versatile guitar, and you can get them for next to nothing.